France claims it has "information" which indicates that the Assad government is continuing to use chemical weapons against rebel groups in Syria. Apparently they have carried out nine such attacks in the past two months.

The Syrian regime has said that the United States, Israel and Turkey, among others, are responsible for the chemical attacks carried out on its territory. It also alleged that these countries will likely be responsible for any future attacks.

According to the worlds leading chemicals arms watchdog, 'The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' (OPCW) the Syrian regime has shipped out about one-third of its chemical weapons stockpile.

Oslo -
Recently the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. Now Norway is being asked to take 500 tons of Syrian sarin gas in a bid to dispose of the chemical weapon.

The founder and head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel-Rahman, has expressed his anger at the “hypocrisy” of the world community for their almost monomaniacal focus on Syria's chemical weapons.

Oslo -
If you placed a bet on who would win the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize the odds are that you lost money. In spite of many favourites this years' winner was the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Washington -
Barack Obama's speech on Syria last night (September 10) repeated many of the same arguments that he and his team have been using in the media blitz to convince the American public to support Obama's plan to punish Assad for his alleged use of chemical we

Haifa -
With the threat of war looming, how are some Israelis spending their leisure time and what are they thinking? A visit to an event at Tulip winery in Northern Israel shows that life in Israel carries on in the ‘waiting room’ and shadow of war.

Stockholm -
Obama maintains that the world and the US Congress set the use of chemical weapons in Syria as a red line not himself. Yet he ignores another important red line and makes a decision to respond that ignores that red line.

A Canadian soldier undergoing medical treatment after recieving mustard gas burns from a German chemical weapons attack during the first World War. Note the bullae - which are characteristic of mustard gas injuries - on the neck, armpit and hands.

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US Army soldiers in a simulated chemical attack drill in Iraq.

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The burned-out ruins of a chemical weapons facility on Okunoshima.

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President Obama makes a statement to the press before a meeting with members of Congress on the situation in Syria (September 03, 2013)

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On March 16, 1988, at the height of the Iraq-Iran war, at the direction of dictator Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi Air Force unleashed chemical warfare upon the Kurds, an ethnic group, in the Iraqi city of Halabja. At least 5,000 people were killed in that attack and many thousands more suffered permanent physical, emotional and mental disabilities

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A Syrian soldier aims an AK-47 assault rifle from his position in a foxhole during a firepower demonstration, part of Operation Desert Shield. The soldier is wearing a Soviet-made Model ShMS nuclear-biological-chemical warfare masks.

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Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, speaks to journalists regarding the latest allegations of use of chemical weapons in his country and the possibility of military action against the Syrian government being contemplated by several permanent members of the Security Council

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US Army soldiers in a simulated chemical attack drill in Iraq.

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A Syrian soldier aims an AK-47 assault rifle from his position in a foxhole during a firepower demonstration, part of Operation Desert Shield. The soldier is wearing a Soviet-made Model ShMS nuclear-biological-chemical warfare masks.

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Satellite imagery of the al-Safira military facility in Syria. The al-Safira military base is the headquarters of the Syrian chemical weapons program and contains both a depot for storing chemical weapons as well as a massive laboratory for manufacturing them

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Ōkunoshima island is a part of the Japanese city of Takehara which is located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Islamic State militants have used chlorine as a weapon and are recruiting highly trained technicians in a serious bid to develop chemical weapons, Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned.

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A U.N. chemical weapons expert, wearing a gas mask, holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus August 29, 2013

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Dispersion of chlorine in World War One.

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Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations (OPCW-UN) joint mission on eliminating Syria's chemical weapons programme, speaks during a news conference in Damascus November 30, 2013